shadroch

This has taken quite the unexpected twist. I think the worst part is the feeling of helplessness. It sucks when you need to depend on others to do the work and all you can do is sit back and hope. Best of luck.

Maybe they were sold on Canadian Forces bases?

I'd use a short box, with an extra lid on the bottom , and some cardboard on the inside if it fits. Lots of tape and don't plug the hand holes.

Yes , the offer is valid and was a first shot in negotiations. it was a serious offer and I had no intention of disrupting your sales thread.

That might too complicated. I am curious about the community and it's opinions. Was there a referendum that I missed? Of the gazillion rules for selling, I don't see one that says offers can't be made in public.

Yes. Have you?

If UPS only insures for $100, and the vast majority of packages CGC ships are worth far in excess of that amount, it would seem that CGC could simply not offer thayt option. We just lost our Fed Ex shop in Bisbee. I'm not sure what happened, but now my Fed Ex options involve a 30 mile drive in either direction. I thought about shipping UPS but I ship a few thousand dollars worth of books at a time and can't risk it.

How is making an offer thread crapping? The OP said to make an offer and I did. If you wish to make a higher one, feel free. If not, why are you here?

As others have said, you jjust have to get the right size. A bag that is 7.25 won't fit a board that is a 7.50. The devil is in the details.

$3, 056.72 offered.

They were probably all mailed, as it was a subscription based publication. There were not really any comic distributors at the time and the vast majority of copies went to subscribers. Did this thread get edited for some reason? There seem to some missing posts.

I bought comics at the St. Albans Naval Hospital in Queens NY in the 70s and most of them had a jewelry supplement. I have said they were Mark Jeweler books in the past, but now I am aware there was another jewelers suppliment people refer to as Nationals. I can state 100% that some of the books sold at their Naval Exchange had jewerly supplements but can't say if they were Marks or Nationals. The books are long gone. I'd occasionally get books at Fort Totten, which was also in Queens but those did not have any supplement. I don't remember any of the books sold at the PXs in Japan having them, but the time period might be off. As many of the books had these supplements and National is said to have had only eight, I'm inclined to say they were Marks. I looked at the covers of the National books and don't remember buying any of them. I didn't buy many 15 cent comics. I was buying 12 cent covers and then pretty much lost interest. I remember buying a couple of 15 cent Green lanterns and Justice League, but when I got back into them, the covers were 20 cents.

In 1975, America was having a paper shortage. Topps decided to experiment a bit with tnheir baseball cards. They produced a test set that reduced the cards size by about 20%. Doing this allowed them to put more cards on each sheet and supposedly saved the company hundreds of thousands of dollars. The smaller cards were sold in select markets and I guess the experiment wasn't a success as it was never repeated. The cards floated around as curiousities for years and it's only in the last few years that collectors are coming to realize how rare these cards truly are. The 1975 set has the most unusual design Topps ever did and it is love it or hate it among collectors, but even the haters are beginning to appreciate these rare mini-cards. If news stands are being made at different dimensions from regular books, they are legitimate variants and history shows there will be some who will want them.

These new mini variants are worth their weight in gold.

Comics were much more diverse when they relied on news stands. As the Direct Market evolved, store owners had to order and sometimes pay in advance. They ordered more heroes and less suspense and mystery. Marvel kept the Western genre alive with reprints until the direct market started but shop owners didn't orfder enough to make it profitable. The first generation of shop owners were almost all fans, many were under-financed, and they gravitated to the stuff they knew and loved.

I've no idea. It wouldn't surprise me either way.

Ain't nothing a good leafcasting won't fix.

Surely such an egregious violation of so many rules calls for a 30% discount on the books in question. Maybe even 50%? Rulez are rulez.

I believe they were stapled so they could be mailed. That was their main source of distribution.

I'm donating back the two lots I won, so let the bidding on them start over. This time.... for the Children.

$67.43 on each and any lot available.

Because CGC says so! CGC 3:16

If all you want is to preserve it, a $2 mylar does the job just as well as an $80 slab.

I don't believe in running to the teacher complaining about my grade. I expect them to get in right and to be consistant. I have a bunch of books with them and they will stay, but for now I am submitting only slabs and lots, not raw books.

I really didn't want to make that last post, but I have to be honest. I've been selling books thru them since they first opened up for consignments and had no commission. I praise them when they deserve it and have to call them out when they deserve it.